It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
FRANCIS BACONHe that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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